Histoire des deux IndesThe Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, more often known simply as Histoire des deux Indes, is an encyclopaedia on commerce between Europe and the Far East, Africa, and the Americas. It was published anonymously in Amsterdam in 1770 and attributed to Abbot Guillaume Thomas Raynal. It achieved considerable popularity and went through numerous editions. The third edition, published in Geneva in 1780, was censored in France the following year.
Reclus familyThe Reclus family, largely known as the progeny and extended family of pastor Jacques Reclus, became known for their distinctive careers in geography, anarchism, journalism, medicine, and other fields during the 19th and 20th centuries. Jacques Reclus (1796–1882), pastor Élie Reclus (1827–1904), ethnographer and anarchist Paul Reclus (1858–1941), engineer, teacher, and anarchist Jacques Reclus (1894–1984), anarchist Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), geographer and anarchist Onésime Reclus (1837–1916), geographer Maurice Reclus (1883–1972), historian Armand Reclus (1843–1927), geographer Paul Reclus (1847–1914), surgeon Les Amis de Sainte-Foy et sa région Hélène Sarrazin (prés.
Bernard CerquigliniBernard Cerquiglini (born 8 April 1947 in Lyon, France), is a French linguist. A Graduate of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, having received an agrégé and a doctorate in letters, he was a teacher of linguistics in University of Paris VII, former director of the National Institute for the French language, former vice-president of the Conseil supérieur de la langue française and president of the French National Reading Observatory. In 1995 Bernard Cerquiglini joined the Oulipo.
